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Shania Twain is Canadian :)

Well, I’m very curious when it comes to music. What bands/artists do you like or think we, TDR readers, would like from your countries?
Well, I’ll mention 5 artists from Brazil I like very much:
1. Pato Fu (Pop-rock band where a girl sings most of the songs. Time magazine listed them as one of the 10 best bands in the world outside U.S. Great song: “Eu”).
2. Skank (Pop band with very melodic tunes. Great song: “Três Lados”)
3. Kid Abelha (Great pop band from the 80’s. A gorgeous blonde on the lead vocals of the Brazilian version of Roxette - what people say. It’s just cos it’s a blonde singing pop songs. They must have same musical influences. Great song: “Te Amo Pra Sempre”).
4. Acústicos & Valvulados - (My favorite Brazilian band at this moment. They started with rockabilly, but now it’s rock & roll. They’re awesome! Great song: “O Nome Dessa Rua”).
5. Los Hermanos - (Great, great band from Rio de Janeiro. Influenced by Weezer and samba. Great song: All of them. But if you want to search for something from them you can find easily on the net their biggest hit “Anna Julia”, wich is not very Weezer-influenced. It’s kinda 60’s).
Warning: it’s all in Portuguese.
That’s only a very few. There is also big names like CPM 22, Capital Inicial, Titãs, Legião Urbana, Barão Vermelho, Os Paralamas do Sucesso, Ira! and lots of underground names, not to mention solo artists. Those are my top 5. What’s yours? :)
If you’re interested in finding those songs and you’re having a hard time doing that, I can e-mail you some MP3s or websites where you can find or listen to them.

Here in Spain there are very good singers and music groups, like Amaral, Bunbury, M-clan, El canto del loco, Alex Ubago, Ismael Serrano... all of them sing in Spanish and make really good music.

Here in New Zealand we have some old and new artists I think Roxette fans may enjoy. Such as:

Dave Dobbyn (been around since the 70s)
Bic Runga (her first album was about 5 years ago. She also does a duet with Dan Wilson on the song “Good Morning Baby”)
Stellar* (rock band with Bic Runga’s sister, Bo, as the singer)
Zed (a rock band from my home city, Christchurch, who appear on the American Pie 2 soundtrack with the song “Renegade Fighter”)
The Datsuns (just recently made it big in the UK)
Annie Crummer (been around since the 80s. She has a knockout voice)
Split Enz (from the 70s and 80s, with brothers Neil and Tim Finn)
Crowded House (well, this band is more New Zealand and Australia. The only New Zealander I know of is Neil Finn)

There’s more, but I can’t think at the moment. Hehe. :)

There has been some really good music come out of Canada in recent years. Avril Lavigne, Our Lady Peace, Nickelback and Sum41 which I’m sure most of you know about. There are other groups like Treble Charger, Wave, David Usher, Simple Plan, and Not by Choice that no one outside of Canada really knows about. It’s a shame, but that’s why we create webpages right?
http://www3.sympatico.ca/thejets/canadian/

Actually David Usher is very good.

kiwijazza, you forgot (purposly or not I don’t know ;) ) The Feelers.

I live in the US

Need I say more?

K3 :DD (Joke:p)
We have Ozrak Henry,dues,ks’choice,Praga Khan,...but our dance acts are the best of the whole world :p Sylver,Milk inc. ,Lasgo,Kate Ryan,Lords of Acid,....

I live in Austria ... here is almost NO musicbusiness.
Schoolbands stay schoolbands, and when the pupils grow up, they split up the band, because of never getting the chance to get a contract!
Poor Music :(

:O How could I forget The Feelers??? I’ve seen him (front man, forgot his name *sad*) in a local guitar shop, even. I’m dumb. lol

Oh yeah,i forgot also “kabouter Plop” “Samson en Gert” “Big en Betsy” “M-Kids”
:DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

You forgot also Hooverphonic and Clouseau :D

yeps,Hooverphonic,and Clouseau,Koen is so sexy,rrrrrrrrrrr :p

Check out Semisane, Justin Bergh, Tweak, Seether, Springbok Nude Girls, Watershed, Tree63, Heinz Winckler, Just Jinger, Karoo, Wonderboom, Danny K, TK, 101, Afro Zee, Strange Little Man, Zen Arcade, Famous Curtain Trick, Mean Mr Mustard, Sons of Trout, Sugardrive, Squeel, and loads more.........from South Africa.

For the avid Roxette sound: Semisane, Watershed, Heinz Winckler and Mean Mr Mustard. For more Rock: the rest on my list......

Cheers.

@ littlespooky,

I live in the UK and know how you feel.

Need I say more!

:)

@Wendy
Clouseau are still in the business? Gr8!
I used to love them, esp. Koen was so sweet :)

“Don’t cry now, you know it happens to the best of us .... ” *sing*
Have to listen to Clouseau again - today in the evening!!! :)))

in English

DJ BoBo no comment
Gotthard gr8
Love Bugs

swiss german:

Polo Hofer und Schmetterband
Gölä
Plüsch

that’s what I can think of at the moment...

Clouseau is still in business,but they sing in Flemish again.......

well contrary to what everyone here says about american music it isn’t all black rap. here’s ome of the new good stuff here

Faith hill :cry
I’m gonna get you good : shania twain

I’m still here by johnny reznik of the goo goo dolls

underneathe it all : no doubt

thjere alot more if i listed it my arms would eb sore

kiwijazza: James Reid would be the name :)

Also, I forgot to mention the deadflowers, they’re also a great NZ band.

Onlywhenidream: *lol* I was actually being derrogatory with my remark. I don’t know too many “good” bands from the US anymore. *lol*

Knew it was a Reid. Hehehe. :)

I also forgot about Anika Moa.

@ littlespooky I was agreeing with you, it’s the same in the UK. All manufactured crap. Middle of the road ’faceless’ (Gessle, 1994) bands.

:)

www.annavissi.net

choose the english language go to multimedia section and click on her english album
“Everything I Am”

U can also listen to her greek albums if u like...i recommend her latest called “X” or the EP “Agapi Ipervoliki”

I like Diafana Krina from Greece :)

santi wow! how did u find out bout them? :)

Ok, from Spain I gotta say I don’t listen much music, but the best (all time, not like in the other post about Spain that were from now) are:

Band (some great songs)

- DUNCAN DHU (La casa azul, En algún lugar, Entre salitre y sudor, Mundo de cristal, Palabras sin nombre, Cien gaviotas........ endless :D)
- LA OREJA DE VAN GOGH (Pop, Qué puedo pedir, El 28, Soñaré, Cuidate, Dicen que dicen, La chica del gorro azul...)
- ANTONIO VEGA (Esperando nada, la chica de ayer, Desordenada habitación...)
- SAU (Boig per tu, Laia, Màgic Whisky, No he nascut per militar, Al final del carrer...)
- RADIO FUTURA (Veneno en la piel, Enamorado de la moda juvenil, Escuela de calor...)
- LOQUILLO Y LOS TROGLODITAS (Feo fuerte y formal, el ritmo del garage... too many :D)
- MECANO (No es serio este cementerio, Aire, Héroes de la Antártida, Ay qué pesado, Hijo de la Luna, Cruz de Navajas, No hay marcha en Nueva York...)
- LA UNIÓN (Maracaibo, Más y más... )
- LA GRANJA (***Fuimos chicos rebeldes*** -> ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL SONG!!!)
- LOS PLANETAS (Nuevas sensaciones, Cumpleaños total...)
- JARABE DE PALO (La flaca, Depende...)
- JOAQUIN SABINA (El blues de lo que pasa en mi escalera, Y nos dieron las 10, Contigo, Pongamos que hablo de Madrid...)
- CHRISTINA ROSENVINGE (Voy en un coche, Pulgas en mi corazón...)
- SEGURIDAD SOCIAL (Chiquilla, Quiero tener tu presencia...)
- AUSTRALIAN BLONDE (Chup chup, Drew & Cherry)
- ALASKA (Mi novio es un zombie, Bailando, Nadie puede cambiarme...)

Just to name a few... Spain has wonderful music, mainly from the 80’s :) Just try to download from KazaA some of these songs to realize ;)

I only use Napster/KazaA/Audiogalaxy to download music from countries I can’t get their CDs. So I looked once in Napster for something Greek and found that wonderful “Meres Argias” :D :)

i know spain has nice music...in greece many ppl listen to it as we have the same mentality-tamperament...where do u live? i have some friends in lanzarote ;)

I live in Valencia, in the mainland Spain :) Here we don’t get Greek music :( just yoghourt :D
Well, if we say Vangelis is greek, then a little bit of greek music is what we get :P

yes vangelis is greek..and im sure u heard of antique..they re greek too :)

Nefatari: at least you had Falco!

Well, but there are a lot of country who no one has said nothing. I don’t know too much, but I like many bands from around the world (I don’t know with which country should I start :D):

- Kasia Kowalska (POL). Her album 5 is wonderful. Try “Bede jak”, “Z kim chcialbys byc?” or “Moje Katmandu”.

- Bluvertigo (ITA). Everything they do is great :D No love songs allowed (mostly :P), try “Iodio”, “Altre forme di vita”, “L’assenzio”, “Comequando”, “Zero”... try anything, is amazing ;)

- Subsonica (ITA). Pretty interesting too, they do things with Bluvertigo (“Disco Labirinto”), and with other artists like Antonella Ruggiero (“Per un’ora d’amore”). My favourite song from them is “colpo di pistola”.

- Luna Pop (ITA). A whole lot more commercial than the previous ones :D But “Se ci sarai”, “50 Special”, “Metrò” and “Zapping” are pretty good pop songs ;)

- Elisa (ITA). It’s a pitty she’s only now beginning to be known. Her newest song “The comes the sun” is a version in English of her only song in Italian (as far as I know) “Luce”, with which she won San Remo festival. But try “Labirynth” or “Gift” to discover she’s not a one hit wonder, but a great musician :)

- Diafana Krina (GRE). Don’t know much but their song “Meres Argias” is absolutely wonderful.

- Irina Florin (BUL). She sings techno and such things, but the songs “Zviat Lilav” and “Moga” are in a very interesting Enya like style :P Also great. Other artists I like from Bulgaria are Kiora or Atlas (“Kukla”), for example.

- Vama Veche (ROM). Pretty strange music/theater thing :D A bit like Queen taken to the extreme. Well, not so rock, they hardly play guitars but the piano is wonderful. From the commercial “Vara asta am sa ma indragostesc” to the ironical (I guess, dunno Romanian :)) “Romania is my country”, passing thru masterpieces “Hate” (in english :DD), “Nu am chef azi” or my favourite “Copilul si durerea”.

- Eva Braun (YUG). Despite the name is a pop band, for me the best or one of the best in Europe. They really understand what pop is about. If you don’t believe it try downloading “Ja to radim samo kad sam sam”, “Bubble gum”, “Sasvim obican dan”, “Lavirint”, “Aljaska”, “Katatonija”, “Konacno sasvim sama”... this songs are all wonderful pop.

- Dino Merlin (CRO/BOS). A well-known singer from Sarajevo. A bit folky, but it’s interesting the oriental touch in his songs. “Godinama” is a favourite of everyone who knws him, were also the Croatian singer Ivana Banfić sings.

- Van Gogh (YUG). Rock, I would say hard rock, sung in serbian. Try “Da li zna” or the first song from the same album that I don’t remember the name but it’s so great :D

- Delfins (POR). Well, not my favourite but they sound good :D. From Portugal I like a singer who is not even known in her country, called Né Ladeiras. If you have the chance to get “Estrela do mar” don’t ever lose it ;)

- Kim Larsen (DEN). Ok, Danish people could say I’m stupid, but I like it :D Especially the song Jutlandia. His band Gasolin was pretty well-known too :P

- The September When (NOR). Pop, pop pop!!!! :D

- Morten Abel (NOR). Ok, this was the singer of the previous band :) But listen “Music is communicating”, “Be my lover”, “Hard to stay awake”, “Don’t forget me”, “Doberman”, “Tulipz”, “You are beautiful”, “Lydia”... you won’t get bored, especially being a Roxette fan ;)

- Nylon Beat (FIN). Ok, Visa and the others don’t get in a panic :DDD But don’t tell me “Viimeinen” isn’t great :P

- Ismo Alanko (FIN). Very strange, but the song “Peltirumpu” rocks... for sure ;)

Wow, this got too long and I still have bands to say :D Well, maybe other day ;) I hope someone downloads some of this songs and tells what s/he thinks :)

@Stormkeeper
Of course, we had Falco .. but as you’ve said, we HAD ...
And he was the only one who really became famous, that’s a shame for the musicbusiness of Austria, which is country full of musical potentialities!

And i forgot our “Axelle Red”
I don’t like her somuch,but her last song is very good,and we can be proud of her :)

2 decent bands got killed off here by that load of crap they call Pop Idol and Pop Stars.

Terrorvision (got bombed out by EMI) and Del Amitri (did tour recently but not been heard of since).... atleast they made their own stuff, sung live and played their own instruments.

Will someone rid the UK of alll this pop idol crap....coz thats all it is...talentless wonders who might aswell be singing in pubs....and Westlife suck too!! :P just thought i’d add that ;)

One name: Laura Pausini.

Santi you’re a citizen of the world!!!! I love all the Italians artists you mentioned...

“Luce” is the Italian version of “Come speak to me”

Uy :DDDD yeah, sorry :DDDD Yeah, when I heard in Spanish charts I thought “Funny, in Italian she says so many times ascoltami -listen to me- and in English says the other thing :D”

wow Santi - a really impressive knowledge of world musicians....and not that famous musicians I’d say....at least that goes for Kasia Kowalska - in fact Polish music isn’t popular at all outside Poland....I thought that you would hear more songs by Edyta Gorniak, but here is Kasia... :) My fave Polish band is called Myslovitz and they won the MTV award for Poland in Barcelona this year....I recommend their songs :)
cheers

i’ve noticed many guys here on tdr like tatu, the russian band. sorry but i think it’s terrible to say the least. the bands from russia worth listening to are mumij troll, vopli vidoplasova, okean elsi (in fact, the latter 2 are from ukraine), naik borzov, 7b, zemfira and b2... they rock!

Hi!

Hi Santi!
Where from did you got mp3 from KIora or ATLAS.
i tryed to find then, but wirhoud sucess.
Thanks

It was the Napster times :) Ohhh... good old days, will never come back :(
I can send them to you by e-mail if you want ;)

Jann Arden - Canada

(or maybe I am the only Canadian who likes her)

No Shane!! I LOVE Jann Arden!! She’s great!! AND she’s INVADING Manhattan, doing 10 nights of shows, upstairs at Studio 54, something like that, in May. I’ll be going to at least one.

Other Canadian artists I LOVE are Amanda Marshall, Lisa Dalbello, Alanis Morissette, Alan Frew (Glass Tiger), Haywire, Tara MacLean, Aselin Debison (she’s pretty cool), Mylene Farmer (she’s from Montreal originally). Canadian artists who are not my thing are: Sum 41 + Simple Plan + Celine Dion + Avril Lavigne (she’s not authentic). Shania I really enjoy too, she’s like ABBA meets Def Leppard!!

I’m from the States, as you know, and I’ll name some artists/bands from here that are below the radar: Roger Clyne + The Peacemakers, Richard X Heyman, Adam Schmitt, Swirl 360, Jellyfish, The Posies, Tsar, Butch Walker, Lava Baby, Deni Bonet, The Everyothers, Cheap Trick. Tift Merritt, Ryan Adams, Lucinda Williams, The Jayhawks, Andrew Dorff, The Drive-By Truckers, John Eddie, Pete Yorn. Oh, there are tons of others too....

Good music from the Netherlands:

- Within Temptation !
- Di-rect
- Krezip
- Kane
- Anouk
- Twarres

And in the past:
- Frank Boeyen Groep
- Golden Earring
- Doe Maar
- Het goede Doel (Wendy: “Belgie” was een hit)

You didn’t mention The Gathering :(

——-

Well, from Argentina,
if you like classic heavy, or Guitars and great solos
download this
Rata Blanca - La Leyenda del ada y el mago.

http://www.rockestatal.net/mp3/Rata%20Blanca%
20-%20La%20Leyenda%20Del%20Hada%20Y%20Del%20Mago%20(www.rockestatal.com).mp3

I just came across this thread here and am surprised, none of the Germans have mentioned any Band or singers here yet!
Well, there is one amazing good Band, the ’No Angels’, even though they are a TV Casting Band, the are releasing the third album now and are still HUGE! The coolest is, they also write their own stuff and are very talented, as one of their own written songs became one of their biggest hits ever. I think, with just a lil promo world wide, they would be as huge as the Spice Girls, with the only difference that No Angels can sing, I saw a life unplugged concert from the No Angels too weeks ago and I was amazed how great they sound live! I think they simply rock .

The Scorpians are a great German Band too... I also love Bell Book and Candle, was surprised they didn’t become Number 1 World Wide....

Ha, and no one mentioned Ireland yet! ;-) I have been living here for more than 5 years now, so I am going to present just some of the coolest Irish Bands here! ;-)

U2 - What more can I say??
Cranberries - One of my Personal favs!!
The Corrs - Perfect Irish Pop!
Westlife - Record Breaking Boy Group, a Boygroup that actually ROCKS! Even I just love ’em!
Sinead O’Connor - Not my Cup of Tea, but very well known...
Enya - She is GREAT! GREAT!! GREAT!!!
Boyzone - even though I never liked them at all...

I most likely forgot some of the other great Irish Bands, there are just so many of them! Considering Ireland is such a saml tiny weeny country it is amazing how many huge Bands we have got. Just keep in mind that there are 3.6 Million people living in Ireland, so this is quite an achievment... ;-)

Fereidoon Forooghi:A great singer with an unique voice.He died 2 years ago.He only had 3 albums.

Farhad:A singer with a special voice.Very popular.
He only had 3 albums.He died 2 years ago.

Googoosh:The most famous Iranian singer.She is fabulous.Many of great songs.She doesn’t release albums now.

th_th... WOW!!! another no angels album? *wanders off to WOM* i only just got their 2nd.... they are totally against my standards but i just cant help loving those girls!!

Canada! Forget that we’re responsible for Celine, Shania, Nickelback, and Avril - we’re sorry (-:

And to show you that we’re really sorry, we’re also giving you ANET, Our Lady Peace, the Matthew Good Band (better than Matt Good solo, I think), and Sum41... these bands are very typical of what gets airplay here (besides all the usual crap). Holly McNarland is really good too... alt-rock but a little different from most.

Others that are popular but no faves of mine:

Barenaked Ladies
Swollen Members
Sarah Harmer
Tragically Hip - probably the biggest Canadian band in Canada

But really, the best we have to offer: *ANET* http://www.mp3.com/anet - for fans of power pop with an edge... great, great artist, writes all her own material and plays many of the instruments heard in her songs, too.

@Shane and others: Jann Arden is alright! Really hate that “Never Mind” song, though... but she’s had some great tracks, like “Could I Be Your Girl” and “I Would Die For You.”

roxtexanet: don´t forget Glass Tiger and Corey Hart from the past! :D oldies; hih hih

I think the best Irish singer is Karen Matheson (if she’s not Scottish... which I don’t remember now :s)

And roxetanet is so right: “ANET” IS THE MOST UNDERRATED BAND EVER!!!!!!!!!!!

Santi, you are SOOOOOOOOO right!!!! Everyone, find out what you’re missing!!

http://www.mp3.com/anet
http://www.anetmusic.com

ANET ROCKS!!!!

And the best spanish singer is ;MONICA NARANJO hehehe...try to download DESÁTAME or SOBREVIVIRÉ. There is no voice like hers.

I just want to add some more:
- BRYAN ADAMS (Canada)
- REAMON (they’re Irish, but living in Germany) - check out the song “supergirl”
- LAURA PAUSINI (Italy)
- ALEJANDRO SANZ (Spain)
- LAMBRETTA (Sweden)
- ESKOBAR (Sweden)
- BON JOVI (USA)
- PATRICK NUO (Switzerland)
- EROS RAMAZZOTTI (Italy)
- HEROES DEL SILENCIO (Spain)
Well, that’s all for the moment.

Oh, I forgot Kent and Melody Club (both from Sweden).

OK. what I love from Germany:

-Nena
-Die Prinzen
-Pur
-Die 3. Generation (only the first two albums “Die 3. Generation” and “Für Morgen” the new albums suxx)

Eskobar from Sweden kick ass. I also recommend Buddaboys from this country :)

From Finland... Well the good ones - or THE (only) good one sings Finnish, actually...Kaija Koo. But I hear some people think that HIM is superb and Darude’s new album is kicking ass. Yep, he’s out there again but with a very low profile!

Oo..I forgot a cool group: Leevi & The Leavings.

Does anybody else want to share the music richness of their countries or regions with us?

the only international singer that came from my country (indonesia) was Anggun. but she didn’t even live there anymore. I think she’s live in French or Canada.

Norway:
Hanne Sørvaag ( also formerly known as Paris )
Venke Knutson
Lene Marlin
Maria Arredondo
Maria Mena
Savoy
Kings of Convenience
Röyksopp
Sondre Lerche
Kurt Nilsen

@Majdy: It doesn’t have to be internationally well-known. This is a way of telling us good music from your countries that we wouldn’t find otherwise. Good music is not always a synonym to internationally commercial music. :P

well, because I think only her that can make a good music, well at least according to me. that;s why I didn’t listen to many music from my country.

we DO have lost of great singer, but just don’t like the type of music they make which was too general (so it’s all sounds the same)

again, it’s according to me. I hope my indonesian fellow won’t read this, because they might kill me :D

but the good thing is, we do have LOTS of variety of TRADITIONAL music (so it’s good for tourist) but unfortunately I don’t like them either...

Here Germany we have:
Nena
Juli
Silbermond
Groove Coverage
Tokio Hotel
Wolfgang Petry
Fanta 4
Overground
Tic Tac Toe
Marius-Müller-Westernhagen
Herbert Grönemeyer
Boney.M
Annet Louisan

From my second Home in America:

Garth Brooks
Eminem
BSB
Hey Lewis and the news
Hall and Oates
Frankie goes to Hollywood
MC Hammer
Kenny Chesney
Alabama
Elvis Presley
Metallica
50 Cent
Madonna (her new song)
Cyndi Lauper
No Doubt
Mötley Crüe
Led Zeppelin
Poison
Beach Boys

I´m from sweden so here it´s all gessle and “gyllene tider”! =)

Hm... for Rox fans maybe some old artists like Kerber, Bijelo Dugme, Riblja Corba, Galija, Van Gogh, Negativ.

For not so Roxette style - Zdravko Colic, Crvena Jabuka (Croatian), Tanja Banjanin, Alisa.... uh there are so many groups. But most of the good music is old music. Not so good music nowadays. You probably remember Zeljko Joksimovic @ Eurovision... :/

And may I suggest my favorite HUNGARIAN band - EDDA, for all Roxette fans! :)

Finnish music...I don’t like at all. Too melancholic.

The Uk gave birth to Tasmin Archer - an artist that had a huge hit with “sleeping satelite” She was a find. Too bad she faded after that.

And I quite like the Corrs (Irish) They’re also great :)

Music from my country is really bad, at least our “rock” or “pop”, I don’t think people specially from Europe, find it interesting or good, I don’t like rock or pop from Argentina, the only band I listen to is a folk one called “Los Nocheros”, they have beautiful songs and wonderful voices.

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